The ‘Halo’ Effect: Paramount+ Series Brings Global Audience to Streamer

970,000 customers cancelled their subscriptions in the second quarter, leading to an after-hours stock rebound of 7%. The market-leading streaming service now stands at 220.67 million worldwide subscribers and is projecting a global addition of 1 million new customers in the upcoming third quarter. That positive guidance is a big reason why Wall Street is showing some renewed confidence in the stock.

analysts feared due to the partnership specifically with Microsoft over other partners such as Google, Comcast or Roku with more established infrastructures could delay the rollout of the pricing tier. Netflix said in the letter to shareholders that it would likely roll out the pricing tier in a handful of markets, as they’ve done with other new initiatives and features – and that it will specifically target markets where advertising spend is significant.

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David Hasselhoff marked his milestone 70th birthday on Monday, and the celebration turned into a mini-“Baywatch: reunion when several of his co-stars joined the festivities.

Brad Pitt showed off his legs at the  premiere in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, opting for a knee-length skirt look on the red carpet. The famed actor paired a matching brown cardigan and skirt with a salmon-colored button-up shirt and finished the look with combat boots. Pitt's eye-catching ensemble also featured tortoise-shell sunglasses and his signature, long chains.  The 58-year-old actor's breezy outfit puts him on the growing list of male celebs rocking skirts and dresses on the red carpet.

Jak Knight's cause of death has been revealed. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office tells ET that the comedian, producer and actor died on Thursday, July 14, from a gunshot wound to the head.

Padma Lakshmi is looking back on a year of firsts for her daughter, Krishna.

Justin Bieber is resuming his Justice world tour, and it looks like Italy will be his first stop, ET can confirm. The singer's rep tells ET that he'll resume the tour on July 31, which is the start of the international leg of the world tour. That'll put him at the Lucca Summer Festival in Italy. His schedule will later take him to Europe, South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand before making his way back to Europe in January 2023.

 alum Juliana Custodio's dream just became a reality. She's officially a mother!The 23-year-old Brazilian model took to Instagram to announce the birth of her baby boy with fiancé Ben Obscura.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's union if full of love and people who have their backs! The couple, who went to the chapel and got married over the weekend, have the support of their children and their respective former spouses, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Garner.  Lopez revealed that during the ceremony, which took place at the Little White Wedding Chapel, she and Affleck's children attended their intimate wedding. «Jen and Ben's Vegas wedding was totally planned, but also privately,» a source tells ET. «They wanted it to be a moment they shared together and with their kids and fulfill a fun idea that they shared.

have made amends — and now she will get her own comedy special.The Oscar-winning entertainer, 54, announced the collaboration in a video message posted Tuesday on Netflix’s Twitter account.“Can y’all believe this s–t?” the “Precious” star joked — twice — before delivering the good news. “I’m excited to say that I’ll be shooting my first Netflix special, in addition to reuniting with my friend, director Lee Daniels on the Netflix film ‘The Deliverance,’” she said with a smile. “You won’t want to miss either of them, so stay tuned,” the Grammy-nominee continued.

Self-aware. Kim Kardashian threw shade in the midst of Khloé and Tristan Thompson’s surrogate announcement. The SKIMs founder posted on her Instagram a couple of quotes that could be directed to the Chicago Bulls basketball player.

Love Island star Jacques O’Neill has reportedly turned down an offer to appear on the next series of Celebs go Dating as he continues to wait for former flame Paige Thorne to leave the villa. The 23 year old rugby player was said to have turned down a whopping £60,000 fee as he continues to pin his hopes on reconciling with the girl of his dreams, following his shocking exit from the villa last week.

Travis Scott earlier this week.After Kanye West pulled out of this year’s event many fans speculated that Scott would be the perfect replacement.But Cherif quickly shut down the possibility of that happening after he responded to fan comments online, stating that “the venue won’t allow Travis because of Astroworld deaths”.Scott is currently facing several lawsuits after the 2021 crowd crush during his headlining set at Astroworld 2021 left 10 people dead and many more injured.But Cherif has since retracted his comments according to TMZ which claims that Tariq said Rolling Loud actually did reach out to Scott to headline the event, but “it couldn’t work in time”.His comment mirrors a statement from a spokesperson for the festival who told Rolling Stone: “We reached out to Travis to headline Rolling Loud, but it couldn’t work in such a short time. This had nothing to do with any restrictions from the hosting venue Hard Rock Stadium.”NME has contacted a spokesperson for Rolling Loud for further comment.Kid Cudi – a longtime colleague of West’s – has since stepped in to headline the first night of the event this Friday (July 22).

Slipknot have shared a cryptic video hinting that new material could drop very soon.The band took to Twitter this evening (July 19) to share career spanning footage along with the caption “The beginning of The End” and a link which goes through to a black screen and various time zones.The video ends with the image of a mysterious bloody masked face peering through a partially opened doorway and a snippet of what sounds like a new song.Although the band have not given any further details, an official Reddit channel for Slipkot fans, uploaded images and claimed that a new album ‘The End For Now’ could be on the way and the first single from the record – ‘The Dying Song’ is set to drop today (July 19).It comes after frontman Corey Taylor recently promised that new music from the band is set to arrive “very fucking soon”.The beginning of The End: https://t.co/ocEwpFbGmi pic.twitter.com/C3QRdOrFCF— Slipknot (@slipknot) July 19, 2022Taylor confirmed in March that the masked metal titans had completed work on their “killer” new record, which will follow 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’.After saying that the album could arrive in “maybe summertime”, Taylor told fans at a recent Knotfest Roadshow gig in Ohio that the music would be arriving “very fucking soon”.He said: “Now, we don’t have an exact date on it, but I’m here to tell you, you’re not gonna be waiting very, very fucking long.

The Chainsmokers are set to become the first band to perform on the edge of space.It’s been revealed that Drew Taggart and Alex Pall have signed up to get into a pressurised capsule that will be tethered to a stratospheric balloon to perform almost 20 miles above Earth.Ryan Hartman, chief executive officer at space tourism company World View, told the Associated Press (via Billboard) it would make the band the first to perform on the edge of space. He also went on to say that while most of the people who have taken part in space flights so far are scientists and engineers, he hopes sending up artists may “inspire them to do something different than they would have otherwise done.”“We think about inspiring new perspectives and how those new perspectives can lead to a radically improved future for our Earth,” Hartman said.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was boosted by bots, according to a report.Released in 2017, Justice League was originally directed by Snyder before he stepped down in the middle of post-production following the death of his daughter, Autumn. After he left the project, Joss Whedon was hired by Warner Bros.

Usher says Justin Bieber is now “doing great” following his recent period of ill health after being diagnosed with ‘Ramsay Hunt Syndrome’.On June 11, Bieber posted a video explaining that he was recently diagnosed with the rare condition, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, “occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears”. In his video, the pop star could be seen struggling to blink, smile or move his right nostril.As a result of the condition, he was forced to postpone the opening stretch of his North American ‘Justice’ tour.

HBO bosses have said the first Game Of Thrones spin-off was cancelled because it lacked the “depth and richness” of the original series.The show, under the working title Bloodmoon, was originally announced in 2018 and took place 8,000 years before events in Game Of Thrones. The pilot of the show, starring Naomi Watts and Jamie Campbell Bower, reportedly cost between $30million and $35million (£29million) to shoot.Despite the huge budget, Bloodmoon was cancelled by HBO in 2019 before it saw the light of day. The announcement was coupled with the reveal of a new spin-off, House Of The Dragon, set to premiere on August 21.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO chief content officer, Casey Bloys, addressed the show’s cancellation.

Bear’s Den have shared a new collaboration featuring Jade Bird which is set to appear in the Apple TV+ series Trying.The uplifting track – ‘Please Don’t Hide Yourself Away’, which you can listen to below, will feature on the band’s soundtrack for the third season of the show.It is the first of two tracks Bird and the band have collaborated on.“The funnest part of making this soundtrack has been the opportunity to reach out and collaborate with other artists and musicians whose music we absolutely love. Today, we’re really excited to be releasing ‘Please Don’t Hide Yourself Away’ featuring the absolutely incredible Jade Bird whose songs we adore and who we’ve always wanted to work with,” the band said in a statement (via The Line Of Best Fit).“It’s been a real dream for us and to be honest we enjoyed working with Jade so much, we worked on two songs for this soundtrack together.”“Ask anyone and they’ll tell you the same – watching music come alive in a great story is one of the most rewarding things you can be a part of as an artist; so it was a real privilege to be asked by Bear’s Den to play a role in two of the songs that would become a part of season three of Trying.

Busted’s Charlie Simpson has explained how his son was rushed to hospital after suffering from “secondary drowning”.The musician shared details of the incident on his Instagram page earlier today (July 19), to help warn other families of the potentially fatal condition.His son Jago, four, had been swimming underwater in a swimming pool when he emerged “spluttering and coughing.” While he initially seemed to recover, Simpson said his son later started to vomit and become “lethargic”.Simpson said after speaking with a doctor, his son was initially diagnosed with food poisoning but later confirmed to have secondary drowning, caused by water in the lungs. The condition can cause pneumonia.“Before the doctor left, I suddenly remembered Jago coughing in the pool that morning and I remembered reading about a condition called secondary drowning, so I relayed it to the doctor,” Simpson explained.A post shared by Charlie Simpson (@charliesimpson)“After hearing this, [the doctor’s] demeanour changed and he told us to go to A&E straight away.”The musician said on the way to the hospital, which was an hour away, his son’s condition started to deteriorate.

Brad Pitt is the epitome of a A-lister.

A woman was left 'shaking with anger' and 'humiliated' in a Tesco supermarket after she was chastised by a member of staff for the top she was wearing. The UK is currently in a heatwave, and temperatures are the highest ever recorded.

Kylie Jenner has been criticised by fans after she took a 12-minute flight on her private jet for a journey that would have taken 39 minutes by car. The 24 year old billionaire has been called a "climate criminal" for her short flights across California - with the star heading on two different flights on both July 13 and July 15. According to travel logs, on July 15 her jet travelled for 35 minutes from Palm Springs, just outside of LA, to Van Nuys, which is close to her $36 million Hidden Hills mansion.

Cruz Beckham was seen packing on the PDA with his girlfriend Tana Holding in front of his famous family while they holiday in Italy. David, 47, and Victoria, 48, have been enjoying a sun-soaked trip with their two youngest children, 17 year old Cruz and Harper, 11, aboard a lavish yacht, as they moved on from visiting Croatia to Italy this week. The Beckhams enjoyed a day out on the yacht, as well as heading to grab a bite to eat at world-renowned restaurant Lo Scoglio on the Amalfi Coast, where Victoria greeted former Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, 62.

Victoria Beckham treated fans to a photo of her husband David Beckham shirtless while on holiday in Postiano, Italy, on Tuesday.The sizzling snap was taken during the couple’s luxury yacht trip near the Italian cliffside village, and showed the 47 year old sports star looking fitter than ever. David was seen in the photo rocking nothing but a pair of tiny red printed swim shorts as he showed off his incredibly toned torso, arms and legs, along with his endless display of tattoos.The former footballer flashed a cheeky grin in the snap as he posed with his hands on his hips whilst standing on the deck of the family’s yacht, on top the glistening Mediterranean Sea.

The heatwave is here. From avoiding caffeine to turning off all electrics that aren’t in direct use, ways to stay cool and make the most of household objects, as well as tricks are all over social media.

Passengers at Manchester Airport have suffered long waits for luggage amid reports of staff absence in handling agencies as temperatures soared. In Terminal One on Tuesday afternoon there were reports baggage conveyors 'broke down' for around 30 minutes while later in the day travellers reported two-hour delays in Terminal Three.

Emmerdale was full of drama on Tuesday night as Leyla Harding's drug secret was finally exposed on the ITV soap. Viewers will recall that Leyla has been using cocaine for the past few weeks after getting close to newcomer Suzy Merton, who has since distanced herself from Leyla and left the village.

EastEnders actor Scott Maslen was spotted showing off his impressive muscles as he grabbed some lunch on Tuesday afternoon.The actor, who plays Jack Branning in the hit soap, did not let the 40 plus degree heat in London as he made his way back home carrying some food. Scott, 51, looked cool as a cucumber as he braved the scorching heatwave, wearing a white vest with navy blue lining, along with some orange Nike shorts, olive green cap, and some North Face sliders.To accessorise, he opted for a pair of sunglasses to shield his eyes along with a pair of headphones to listen to music as he made his way home.

Congrats are in order for Juliana Custodio and Ben Obscura!

Lady Gaga is having the time of her life kicking off the highly anticipated Chromatica Ball worldwide tour in Germany, after rumored to be playing Harley Quinn in the ‘Joker’ sequel, the singer is now showcasing incredible choreographies and taking us back to the ‘Mother Monster’ days with her extravagant wardrobe, hair and makeup, giving fans everything they want.And while the audience during the first concert were thrilled to have Gaga back on stage, performing Sour Candy, Free Woman, 911, Shallow and more, many were wondering about her chronic pain condition, as it is known that the singer and actress suffers from fibromyalgia.The 36-year-old performer, who seems to be the top choice to portray Amy Winehouse in an upcoming biopic, gave fans an insight of how she has been feeling lately, revealing that she is currently “pain-free.”“I want to really thank you for sticking it out with me and loving me through all the different iterations of my artistry as well as me as a person,” Gaga admitted to her fans. “I feel more clear today than I have in a long time and more pain-free than I have in ages.

If Kylie Jenner is fighting back against accusations her ridiculous wealth has made her out of touch, well… she’s a few years late tbh.

Steven Hull Raley, who is known on TikTok as @Pissed_off_trucker, tragically died in a car accident on July 12, just hours after posting his final video.

Camila Cabello has coronavirus, and she’s making the announcement through TikTok – and she’s evidently still in great spirits.